12192. Anderson, Flo. Lighthouse Chronicles: Twenty Years on the BC Lights. Harbour. 1998.
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12192. Anderson, Flo. Lighthouse Chronicles: Twenty Years on the BC Lights. Harbour. 1998.
12192. Anderson, Flo. Lighthouse Chronicles: Twenty Years on the BC Lights. 1998. Harbour, 224p. Soft wraps. In 1961 Flo Anderson, her husband Trevor and their four children left a life of relative comfort and convenience in Vancouver and moved to Lennard Island, a rocky, windswept light station off the west coast of Vancouver Island. The Andersons worked as lightkeepers for the next twenty years, at Lennard and then at Barrett Rock, McInnis Island, Green Island (BC’s northernmost lighthouse) and Race Rocks (BC’s southernmost). In this extraordinary memoir Anderson speaks candidly about the challenges of learning to live on an exposed, isolated island the size of a city block, where, to get through the day, a family has no one to depend upon – except each other. She describes the essential, exacting work of lightkeeping, which was soon to become a lost art. She also describes the profound joys of living with a family in a wild and beautiful place – enjoying the tranquillity of hidden coves and private beaches, looking out over a storm-tossed sea blanketed with foam, and watching her children discover, firsthand, the natural wonders of the BC coast. Wonderful, interesting account. Light use, gift inscription. (VG). $16.